· Private foundation
The Nielsen Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $296k
- $50k–250k20 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TAMPA BAY WAVE INC | $222,500 |
| THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND | $164,680 |
| LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION | $150,000 |
| NATIONAL AFTERSCHOOL ASSOCIATION | $120,000 |
| GEENA DAVIS INSTITUTE ON GENDER IN MEDIA | $75,000 |
| ADVERTISING COUNCIL INC | $75,000 |
| CLIMATE CENTRAL INC | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL ASS'N OF BROADCASTERS LEADERSHIP FDN | $50,000 |
| CIVIC NATION | $50,000 |
| ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| GLAAD INC | $50,000 |
| HISPANIC FEDERATION INC | $50,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RADIO TELEVISION SOCIETY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| ARF CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| HARMONY LABS INC | $50,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $674k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of The Nielsen Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
82 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 53 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $256k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TBTAMPA BAY WAVE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +145%
- NANational AfterSchool Association Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +15% · 29% of their budget
AFTERSCHOOL ALLIANCE3× · 2017–2019 · $700k · revenue +89%
Funded once
UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -16%- AAAURORA-ST ANTHONY NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -31%
Cornell Universityone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +14%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Local Initiatives Support Corporation and the most unlike its peers is We Are All Human Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
203 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 203 of the 223 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds TAMPA BAY WAVE INC ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds National AfterSchool Association Inc ↗
- Who funds AFTERSCHOOL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE ADVERTISING COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROADCASTERS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL RADIO AND TELEVISION SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FPF EDUCATION AND INNOVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds ARF CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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- Who funds THE PALEY CENTER FOR MEDIA ↗
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- Who funds INEVITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
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- Who funds GLAAD INC ↗
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- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
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- Who funds UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
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- Who funds URBAN SCHOOL FOOD ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds University of South Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR MINORITY INTERESTS IN MEDIA INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Gofundmeorg · Tides Foundation · AARP · Tegna Foundation Inc · Wells Fargo Foundation · The Coca-Cola Foundation Inc · Pwc Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Hispanic Federation Inc · John S and James L Knight Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Nielsen Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Tampa Bay Wave Inc — 100% of income from government
- Center for Adoption Support and Education Inc — 51% of income from government
- Christian Community Action Inc — 29% of income from government
- The Carver Inc — 16% of income from government
- Chapel Haven Schleifer Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- Silver Lining Mentoring Inc — 10% of income from government
- Citizen Schools Inc — 8% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Academy Prep Center of Tampa Inc — 3% of income from government
- Amie Inc — 3% of income from government
- Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% of income from government
- The Poynter Institute for Media Studies Inc — 1% of income from government
- Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% of income from government
- Collegiate Pathways Inc — 1% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- The University of Tampa Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Adrienne Arsht Center Trust Inc — 0% of income from government
- Junior Achievement of Tampa Bay Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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